Three Ways

Peco and Shinohara (now Walthers) make 3 ways. Personally I would check out the Peco. It is more compact and way long ago I had a Shinohara 3 way (I mean way long ago) and remembered it to be a pain in the side. Maybe Walthers makes them better!

Tom

Get custom

Someone should know a custom code 70 maker on here 

Peco option

Hi Pat,

Have a look at a Peco SL-E199 it is code 75 and is closest in rail-height profile to your ME code 70 tracks. It differs from the one in your photo only in that the right hand track diverges before the left hand track as shown in your photo. It is an Electrofrog type turnout, which should give faultless electrical contact across the frog areas of both turnouts. 

Check out the top photo and notice how far the ties are buried in the ballast. This can help camouflage any difference between the Peco and ME ties. 

This is probably as close as you can get without going to a custom build or hand-laying it yourself. If you are prepared to accept the track geometry this one piece of track should get you a long way towards your proposed layout. Tracking one down in the US may involve some internet digging. Good Luck,

The first one might not work but...

It might be interesting and stretch you and your abilities to build one yourself.  I’ve always had fun breaking down the “manufactured” buy it done use it now barriers.

Nick

There is a code 70 3way on Ebay.

Is this DCC ready?

Does anyone know if this is DCC friendly or would I need to modify it? I have some of those frog juicers for turnouts I could hook up to it   Never used a shinohara before 

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F133106454720

Peco Three Way

i've been using a pair of these for a long time ( since they were cheap) and they operate faultlessly.

But what about them being oversized?

Look at the prototype shot. There is so much dirt, crud, weeds, etc around the track that the code is going to be unnoticeable, at least by me. ????  Chris Nevard has written a great column about semi-buried track. He ballasts, then "makes tke ballast disappear" with a slurry of Das clay.  Especially views end on like this, the height isn't apparent in the general scene.

I have the peco code 75 3 way and ME code 70 track

it works good. The only downside is the British style ties. They are noticeably wider than the American style ME ties. I will probably end up burying the ties in black industrial ballast to hide it.

 I wish peco would offer the settrack no 2 turnouts in a smaller rail code for industrial trackage. 

Three way vs overlapped turnout

I think this is actually two over lapped turnouts which will be custom built.

Three way turnout

handlaidtrack.com has three way turnout kits for hand laying track.  I’m modeling Clackamas in O scale

Three way vs overlapped

A three way turnout IS two regular turnouts, diverging in opposite directions, overlapped.  I think once you get a crossing of the closure rails as the first photo shows you’re in three way turnout territory.

Walthers

I have two of those in code 70 from Walthers that cost around 15 bucks each. Definitely not DCC ready since they were made in the 80s but so glad I have them.

Never knew Clackamas has a three-way, all these times I visited Brooklyn but never wandered over to that part of town to see anything running, Vancouver and all the action on that side of the river got my attention instead.

LMK

I removed this from my layout when starting over this year. 

I couldn’t bear to part with it but can’t use it so let me know if you want it. Shipping may cost nearly as much as a Walthers locally but I’ve never bought turnouts so don’t know for sure.